Wednesday, December 13, 2006

2006 's musical best

I yearn for good music, especially Hindi film music. The music I enjoy is something which is usually soft on ears, has a rhythm and refreshes you. Lyrics are very important to me. I am often enthralled by the way lyricists use the same set of words but pen them in a different but poetic way. Lyrics are the reasons why Ghazals are still my top draw.
I remember the days when I used to carefully collect some good music CD's; some by repeated listening, others by gut instinct based on the artists involved. Last few years though its been more of online listening and I have not followed things that closely. This year there have been some really good albums from the likes of Rahman, Pritam and S.E.L (Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy).
Here are my personal favourites this year:

1.Mitwa (Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna) - Beautiful Lyrics were enough to propel this soothing piece of melody to the top of my list. SRK has been blessed with some real good songs. I liked the revisited version as well.

2.Rang De Basanti (Rang de Basanti) - No one else could have done justice to this one other than Daler Mehendi, he's simply fabulous. The fast, peppy number energizes you no end.

3.Kya Mujhe Pyar Hai (Woh Lamhe) - Pritam has mixed rhythm and beats well to create this youthful song. Listening to it again and again had me addicted.

4.Tu Hi Meri Shab Hai (Gangster) - Again Pritam scores with this one. KK has rendered it nicely and it immediately gets on to you.

5.Aaj ki Raat (Don) - Techno music by S.E.L, great voices by Alisha Chinoy, Mahalakshmi and Sonu Nigam make this one special. Listen the DCH (Koi Kahe) like background tune.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

What happened to songs from Kriish? Even that had some good numbers.

Anonymous said...

Omkara songs?